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Hi all i am looking at buying a sekonic l 308s meter any advice about this meter good or bad, regards saber
it seems to be a great gadget with lots of wonderful features but pricey too. i wonder is it a product of value for money.
it would be interesting to know what others think
Using one for the last five years. Find it very accurate and reliable. It has reflective and incident metering, but no spot meter. Nice and small and fits in your pocket. Also own the 558 model but prefer to use the 308 unless I need a spot meter.
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Excuse my ignorance on this but I was under the impression that light meters had very limited use, if any, with dslr’s. Wrong?
Yes, I kind of agree; generally speaking, the only meter I would want to use with a digital camera that has a good built-in meter would be a spot-meter and even then only in unusual circumstances; or e.g. the meter you mentioned, if you used, say, a non-coupled old manual lens, e.g. with an adapter perhaps, for convenience. I myself have 4 lightmeters (a spotmeter, two incident/reflective meters and a flash-meter); all of them stay at home when I’m about with a DSLR (except for when I set up studio lights on location now-and-then).
Handy little workhorse meter, I imagine. I don’t have one but have others in the sekonic range (L208 Twinmate, L758D) and find them great meters.
The little twinmate gets a lot of use with my meterless film camera, and love the simplicity of incident metering (which no camera offers). That said I do not use mine with my digital cameras as I find matrix metering and being able to review exposure on the back of the camera eliminates the need for a seperate meter, for my needs.
Meters definitely have their uses, just make sure they’re useful for you. Spot metering for landscape work, or an incident meter for lighting ratios in the studio would be the stereotypical common usage, but even if simply only incident metering outdoors to get a better understanding of light levels, then they are useful. If shooting negatives (colour or black & white), my own personal preference would be to forego a meter and dive in with sunny 16 metering, as you will get a better idea of the light, quicker. If doing very technical work, then obviously a spot meter has no parallel :)
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